Lamp-support for incubator-heaters.



No. 883,939; PATENTED APR. 7, 1908.

0. Z. DAVIS & J. H. BABE. LAMP SUPPORT FOR INGUBATOR HEATERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3]., 1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE ZANE DAVIS AND JOHN H. BAER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO CYPHERS INCUBATOR COMPANY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LAMP-SUPPORT FOR INGUBATOR-HEATERS.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Application filed August 31, 1905. Serial No. 276,512.

To all whom it may concern:

.Be it known that we, CLARENoE ZANE DAVIS and JOHN HENRY BAER, citizens of the United States, and residents of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLamp-Supports for Incubator Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

shown in section; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a device embodying this invention.

In the drawing the heater 1 is provided with a metal pipe 2 constituting the hot air inlet to the incubator 3. The heater 1 is heated by means of a lamp 4, which is held up so that its burner cone 5 is in close contact with and closes a tube 6 extending to the bottom of the heater. Adjacent to the lower end of the heater, a casting 7 is at tached to the incubatorhaving two vertical sockets 8,8. This casting 7 may, if desired, also constitute the support for an exhaust tube 9 for drawing air out of the incubator 3, or for assisting the circulation of air through it.

Vertically disposed and downwardly projecting pins 10 are adapted to fit in the sockets 8, 8. From these pins 10 there extend upwardly, outwardly, downwardly, and then horizontally, a support and shelf for the lamp. In the present example of the invention, the pins 10 are the ends of a continuous wire frame 12, which may itself be the direct support for the lamp, or may have fastened upon it the block 13.

The operation of this device is as follows: the support'being made of an elastic material, is held rigidly in place by the pins 10 when set in their sockets 8, and by the bent portion of the support, as above described, the horizontal portion thereof may be pressed downward, bending the curves above men tioned above and in front of the pins 10 until the lamp may be removed or inserted into place. When the lamp is inserted in place, on releasing the frame 12 from downward pressure the elasticity of the support will press and hold the lamp 4 in place under the tube 6.

What we claim is The combination of an incubator, an incubator heater having a heating tube open at its lower end, means for supporting said incubator heater on the incubator, vertically disposed sockets fastened on the incubator, a lamp adapted to fit the lower end of said heating tube, and a support for the lamp having vertically disposed and downwardly directed pins fitting in said sockets and extending from said pins upwardly, outwardly, downwardly, and horizontally, and composed at its curved portions of an elastic material, whereby the lamp is held in place against the lower end of the heating tube and is removable therefrom by bending said support.

CLARENCE ZANE DAVIS. JOHN H. BAER.

WVitnesses:

CHARLES E. ADAIR, E. J. PLUMLEY. 

